We have not yet reached that stage in America! But we have heard all we want to
know about how the system works. Perhaps we hall be fortunate enough not to demand
personal knowledge of so gruesome a reality. Doubtless we shall prefer to continue with
our FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF DEED, and FREEDOM TO RENDER USEFUL
SERVICE IN RETURN FOR RICHES.
The practice, by Government officials of extending to men and women the
privilege of raiding the public treasury in return for votes, sometimes results in
election, but as night follows day, the final payoff comes; when every penny
wrongfully used, must be repaid with compound interest on compound interest. If
those who make the grab are not forced to repay, the burden falls on their children,
and their children's children, "even unto the third and fourth generations." There is no
way to avoid the debt.
Men can, and sometimes do, form themselves into groups for the purpose of
crowding wages up, and working hours down. There is a point beyond which they
cannot go. It is the point at which the LAW OF ECONOMICS steps in, and the sheriff
gets both the employer and the employees.
For six years, from 1929, to 1935, the people of America, both rich and poor,
barely missed seeing the Old Man Economics hand over to the sheriff all the
businesses, and industries and banks. It was not a pretty sight! It did not increase